Audio player

Grooveshark has a large collection of songs and classical music. You can insert a single song, or create and insert a playlist. The embed code they provide cannot be used directly in a wordpress.com blog, but it can be converted to a working shortcode (see here for general background).
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https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ The post “Alternative audio players” is a guide to the MixPod/MyFlashFetish players. Unfortunately, the MixPod auto-post-to-WP function often doesn’t work. So here are some workarounds that allow you to sidestep it. A – If you have previously inserted another MixPod player/playlist in your blog, and you want to insert a new one, using the … Continue reading →

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ For a playlist and/or an alternative to the standard WP audio player, you can sign up with MixPod or MyFlashFetish and select one of the 24 players (“skins”) available. Like the WP audio player, these players are color customizable – and a lot more painlessly, at that: instead of having to add arcane pieces … Continue reading →

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ The current version of the WP audio player includes some additional options not documented in the outdated Support info page [Update: now included in the new Support doc]. As in the case of the color options, you activate them by adding extra pieces of code before the closing bracket of the player shortcode (for … Continue reading →

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ You can change the color of the various components of the audio player, by including additional pieces of code in the shortcode (for the standard shortcode see here). You add them right after the URL of the mp3, as shown in this Support info page; their example: [audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3 |bg=0x0000ff|righticon=0xff0000] But I thought I … Continue reading →

https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/ [Updated April 2013.] [Pt.1 here; pt.3 here.] Poll or gallery with wrap-around text <div style="float:left;margin-right:22px;"> SHORTCODE HERE </div> Example: Obviously the code above is for poll or gallery to the left, text to the right: you can use “float:right” and “margin-left” if you want it the other way. And you can adjust the vertical … Continue reading →

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